John Leguizamo, Stephanie Beatriz and others talk about creating authentic stories portraying the Latin community. “I wanted to write my own stuff, so I could portray my people the way I saw them and felt them,' Leguizamo says.
“One of my happiest moments was going to the warehouse where this conveyor belt was being made for this show. I thought like, ‘Oh my God, how’d I trick HBO into greenlighting this thing?’” he says. “I feel like I fooled enough people into investing in me.”
“There were no Latino executives or anybody at that network [that worked on ‘Cristela’]. I had to fight with them all the time to explain my existence,” Alonzo says. “If my story didn’t fit their version of what Latino life is, it was inauthentic to them.” For “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star Beatriz, success meant being cast in the lead role of regional theater production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” “I felt like, ‘Oh, they’re starting to see what I already know exists… They see the world in which a woman that looks like this can also be that character.’”
A common refrain among the panelists is how the work being done by Black Lives Matter organizers helps Latinx people as well both on and off-screen. “Where would we be now, if it wasn’t for what Black Lives Matter did?” asks Leguizamo. “We really owe so much to them.” Big picture questions that go beyond who is represented on-screen are top of mind for Torres. After teaming up with HBO to release both a comedy series and stand-up special, Torres found himself wondering if he was technically an employee of AT&T, the premium cable network’s parent company.
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